The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

30.  In section 65 (disqualification from election or holding office as police and crime commissioner: police grounds)(1)—

(a) in subsection (1)(e), insert after paragraph (ii)—

“(iii) the Combined Authority;”;

(b) for subsection (1A), substitute—

“(1A) Subsection (1)(e)(i) does not prevent a deputy mayor for policing and crime—

(a) from being elected as Mayor at an election held under the Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Combined Authority (Election of Mayor) Order 2016;

(b) from being elected at an election held under the Combined Authorities (Mayors) (Filling of Vacancies) Order 2017 to fill a vacancy in the office of Mayor if, on the day on which the person is nominated as a candidate at the election and at all times between that day and the declaration of the result of the election, the deputy is acting as acting commissioner under section 62.”.

(1)

Section 65 was amended by paragraph 184 of Schedule 8 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), section 122(1) of and paragraph 73(2) of Schedule 9 to, the 2017 Act and by S.I. 2021/1265.